Cabinet for disk records.



H. E STEVENS, JR. CABINET FOR DISK RECORDS. APPLICATION FILED MA'R. 9. 1914.

1,145,712; Patented July 6, 1915.

INVENTOR l IHET F03, El i- SK Application. filed March 9, 3.31%.

from it may concern:

hown that l, HENRY STEVENS, Jr, of the United States, and a resithe city of New York, borough of an, in the county and State of New 'nvented a new and Improved i full, clear, and exact description. s invention relates to furniture and as 'carticular reference l-o cabinets designed e ially for holding disk records in close compact relation to one another.

Among the objects of the invention is to provide means of a simple and reliable nature whereby theoperator may selecr. and

desired records from the cabinet wlcn faci 'ty.

' r object of invention is to 'nalate the records as to reduce eh further object of the invention is is provide filler for cabinets now on the market, said filler consticuting the main feares of ihis invenfiion.

foregoing and other objects of the invention will hereinafter be more fully seb forth and claimed and illustrated in the drawings forming a part of this specification in which like characiers of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the views, and in which I Figure 1 is a vertical ing a preferrez relation to e t 1 a echcnai new snowform is niven on, liJS l; and Fig. 4 is a transverse sectional detail on the line H of Fig. 1.

Th several parts of the device may be made of any suitable materials, and the relative sizes and proportions, as well as the general design of the mechanism, may be varied to a considerable extent *ithout departing from the spirit of the invention hereinafter more fully set forth and specifically claimed.

eferring more particularly to the drawings I show at C a cabinet of any suitable design or type with which my improvement is adapted to be used, the illustration in this respect being diagrammatic.

The main parts of the filler consist of upper and lower members l and 11 respectively, each having guiding means herein as grooves12 and 13 respectively,

Specification o Letters Parent.

or Disk Records, of which the fol-- damage to the same to a minimum.

shown Paicniedl dull 6. igfrfli arranged in vertically alined pairs and ire individual records 1') i Where chey are held in normal poshe cabinet. The members and lightly inclined downwardly toward the cabinet and have their anrially parallel to each other, space between if he bottoms of grooves being substantially e. i iehlly greater than the diamebe c i l The ribs 1% constituting ehe sid wa the grooves or the guards, preventin one record from contacting with a other, are preferably quite narrow or thin so as to per as much room as possible to be occupied by the records in close relation one another. The depth of the ribs 14, or simplici or" construction, may be comarati slight, but as to this and other 'ls construction I do not wish to be i y virtue the slight in.- cline which the guide members are set, the

records when inserted into fine guiding and holding grooves "'oll freely back toward the rear pension of sition .v ere they remain until they are to be seecaed and withdrawn from the cabinet. suiiable means may be provided to start the records from their normal position so that their front edges mav be grasped readily by the operators fingers and whereby they may be withdrawn from The form of ejcceor,

which I prefer to use and show herewith, comprises a slidable or bodily movable member having a bar 15 guided along parallel to the member 11 and in the same vertical plane as the records supported by said member. At the rear end of the bar 15 is arranged, preferably integrally, an angular-1y disposed arm 16 which is adapted to lie normally near the rear portion of the record and having a slightly flattened and broadened end 16' adapted to bear against the periphery of the record when the ejector is moved bodily outwardly. At the front end of the bar is secured a finger piece 17 extending at an angle from the bar 15 whereby the ejector may be readily drawn outwardly for the purpose of starting the record from normal position. The finger pieces or" alternate ejectors constituting a series are preferably of the same length, but one series of the finger pieces are preferably shorter than the other series and arranged slightly farther from the member 11, whereby,

the cabinet while the 86 re cabinet into normal po- 6 stitutes the main connection records may be banked closely together, there is no ditliculty in selecting and ejecting any of the disks because of the accessibility of the finger pieces to the operators fingers, otherwise the actuators or ejectors are or may be all substantially alike both in construction and operation.

The guiding and supporting member 11 is supported upon transverse sills 1S and 19. The sill 18 is thicker than the other accor ing to the desired amount of inclination for the member 11. The bars 15 of the ejectors are maintained in proper spaced parallel relation to one another and adapted for slidable movement selectively between the member 11 and the sills 18 and 19 by any suitably arranged grooves or the like. For this purpose I have indicated the bottom surface of the member 11 as provided with grooves 20, each groove 20 being arranged preferably beneath the longitudinal center of a groove 13 in which a record to be ejected is normally held.

When the operator selects a record and wants tostart it from its normal position in the cabinet, a pull on the finger piece 17, which may bear a number or be associated with a number on the face of the cabinet corresponding to the index number of the selection desired, will slide the ejector forwardly, causing the arm 16 to start the record outwardly or up the inclined groove 13, and if the record is desired to be used immediately the operator will grasp it and withdraw it from its place between the two next adjacent records which are left undisturbed by this operation. The angle of inclination of the. member 11 being slight and much less than the angle of friction between the 93801301 and the guiding means therefor, the mentor may remain in its projectcd position until therecord is returned to its place, when the action of the record rolling back to normal position will carry its ejector back with it to its normal position. While the front end of the ejector thus remains in its outer position, it may serve, at least in a degree, as an indicator to assist the operator in locating the place for the record-to be returned. The ejector thus con-- structed is of a very simple nature and the friction incident to its sli lingmovement is practically negligible.

' Any suitable means may be provided to prevent the rotation of the ejector whereby it is always maintained in such position that the arm thereof will be in the same plane as the record and directly in the rear of the rear portion of the record. In this connection attention is called to a comb-like abutment 21 extending horizontally along the rear portion of the structure, the same being shown secured to the front face of the rear wall 22 of the filler. Said rear wall conbetween the EllC-k'ilii-l for acromp rearwardly therefrom when the members 10 and 11, maintaining them in proper relation even though the filler be re moved from the cabinet. The filler may also comprise, for this purpose, a bottom plate 23 connected at its rear end to the back wall and serving to support the member 11 and the sills 1S and 19. The abutment 21 is provided with a slot A directly in the rear of each of the records and hence in the same vertical plane therewith. In this slot is located the arm 16 of the ejector, the shou der 25 at the rear end of the slot 24: constituting a convenient positive stop limiting the rearward movement of the ejector. The member 11 is preferably of a length such that the rear end 26 thereof is spaced from the normal position of the arm 16 and serves as a convenient stop limiting the forward movement of the ejectors. in other words, the vertical planes coinciding with the rear end or shoulder 26 of the member 11 and the stop shoulders 25 of the abutment represent the extent of slidable movement of the cjectors forwardly and rearwardly. The metal or material of which J the ejectors are made may be of small caliber, less in width than the thickness of a record, and the slots M in which the arms 16 operate are, therefore, .i'aecessarily narrower than the thickness of the records. The front edge 27 of the abutment, therefore, constitutes a convenient and effective positive stop, limiting the rearward move ment of the records and serves to normally support the same in position, whereby the strain incident to the weight of the records is relieved from the e iectors. Since the bars 15 of the ejectors are held and guided in the grooves between the member ll. and sills 18 and 19, it olwious that the coiiperation between the arm 1" and their guiding slots 24 will P()S t-1\"Q i y insure against any rotation of the :"tors around the axes of the bars 15 with tnc suit that the ends 16 of the arms will ai be in the rear of the records.

lVithout being unnecessa any particular form or teen members 10 and 1i i prefer straight material. in l toms of the g am-es ,tially pla tions the posit vide slight der which the record rolls. This pocket or depression is just deep enough preferably to prevent the record fromrclling by gravity eater brings the record into position to roll into' the pocket. It is not fil'sep enough, however,

n or pocket 28 into -may be applied to the to allow the record to be Withdrawn from the groove 12 in the upper member 10. The bars or ribs 14, therefore, are always efiective to keep each record safely spaced from the other records. Among the principal purposes of the pockets 28 is to provide a means for temporarily holding any selected records out of normal position until they machine. It is a quite usual practice for an operator to have a number of selections under contemplation at one time or While any selection is being rendered, and the means provided herewith for selecting, ejecting and temporarily holding the records is found most convenient for this purpose. The pockets do not interfere in any manner Withthe prompt return I of the records to their normal position in the cabinet as they roll rearwardly from the ,outer ends of the grooves 13.

Having thus described my invention, 1 claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent: 7

1. In a disk record cabinet, the combination With guiding and supporting means for a record disk holding the same normally in a vertical plane, of an ejector comprising a bar movable longitudinally along the guiding means and having an integral angularly arranged arm extending in the rear of the disk, and means to limit the slidable move ment of the ejector, forth.

2. In a disk record cabinet, the combination with upper and lower spaced guide members having pairs of parallel grooves to receive and hold a series of individual records in vertical planes, of a series of ejectors for startingany selected records from normal position, each ejector lying and movable substantially as set in the plane of the record to Which it perv tains and including a straight longitudinally movable bar and a rigid angularly disposed arm integral with the bar, said arm lying in the rear of the record, and a rigid -member lying in the rear of all of the records and serving to limit the rearward movement thereof and prevent rotation of the ejector.

3. In a device of the character set forth, the combination of a supporting guide member having spaced parallel grooves to receive and support a closely associated series of records, means to support and properly space from one another the portions of the records opposite said member, and a series of independently selected and operated ejectors associated With said supporting and guiding member, each ejector comprising a bar guided for sliding movement along and parallel to said member, and an arm integral With said bar and extending at an angle therefrom in the same plane as the record to be ejected thereby, said ejector bar also having secured to the end thereof opposite the arm a finger piece whereby the ejector may a EA be drawn outwardly to start a record from normal position.

4:. In a cabinet for disk records, the combination of a guiding and supporting member having spaced means for a series of records arranged in close parallel planes, a series'of ejectors pertaining to the several records, each ejector comprising a bar slidable parallel to the guiding and supporting means and an integral rigid arm arranged at an angle to the bar in the rear of the record to be ejected thereby, and means cooperating With the arm to prevent rotation of the ejector around the axis of the bar.

5. Ina cabinet for disk records, the combination of a main guiding and supporting member for individual independently movable records, a series of ejectors each comprising a slidable bar and an integral rigid arm arranged at an angle to one end of the bar, and means coiiperating with the several eral records and movable independently of one another, each ejector being slidable and bodily movable in the plane of its record for starting such record from its normal position, each ejector including an integral rigid arm extending in the rear of the record and adapted to engage the periphery thereof, and a member serving to prevent rotation of the ejector and to limit its slidable movement.

7 In a cabinet. for disk records, the combination of main guiding and supporting means for a plurality of parallel closely re lated records, a series of independently operable ejectors relating to the several records, each ejector comprising a straight bar and an arm extending from one end of the bar at an angle in the rear of the record to be started thereby, and an abutment arranged parallel to the records, said abutment cooperating With the several ejector arms to prevent rotation of the ejectors and limit the slidablemovementvthereof in one direction, said abutment also constituting positive stop means to limit the movement of the records in one direction and relieve the strain therehaving straight bars movable in said grooves and also having arms extending at an angle from the rear ends of the bars in the rear of the several records, and means cooper-- ating With said arms to prevent rotation of the bars in said grooves and maintaining the arms in the rear of the records.

9. In a device of the character set forth, the combination of main supporting and guiding means for closely related parallel records, and a series of independently operable ejectors relating to the several records, each ejector comprising a slidablc bar, a finger piece at the outer end and an arm at the rear end, the ejector arms extending in the rear of the several records and the finger pieces being arranged in a plurality of groups, the finger pieces of one group being shorter and farther outward from the cabinet than those of the other group, and the 

